Pat Ventura Pitches a Record
I think I can honestly say that in the over 500 pitches we’ve taken for “Random Cartoons!” this year, there hasn’t been one with more panels than Pat Ventura’s re-pitch of his short, The Dangerous Duck Brothers last Friday. We needed to use the Nickelodeon Main Conference room for this pitc, which was over 300 pages long, 2 panels per page. Pat, you’re a drawing machine!
And for those of you wondering, yes, Pat will have to kill some of his darlings. But that, as “they” say, is showbiz.
I took a horribly awful video of his pitch board as it wrapped around the entire room, and on to other mobile panels we brought in. Quite an amazing site. The pic I took is an arial shot of the pitch room. The second floor of the Nick building (where SpongeBob and Avatar are stationed), has a terrific glass wall, perfect for spying.
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On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
holy crap!
this is kind of amazing!
bravo pat! bravo!
-jx
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
how many push pins do y’all think were used?
amazing, again! genius.
thumbs up pat!
-jx
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
2 push pins per page
300 pages
= 600 push pins
100 push pins per box
= 6 boxes
stay in school
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I suppose some might say he coulda used 1 per page or even four push pins per page.
as far as my math skillage goes… That’s why I went to art school!
-JX
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Wow! Now that’s a lot of storyboarding! That’s got to be like a 15 minute cartoon! How on earth is he going to cut all that down? Well, I guess if anyone can do it, it would be Pat!
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’m guessing that he probably just drew more drawings per scene (ie animated his boards) and the actual screen time ain’t too bad. Pat yer a crazy guy! Just have a studio in-between your boards!
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Wow! Lots of storyboarding man!! I cant wait till the day im in that studio! -Steve
On April 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
How many trees is that? It’s gotta be like seven or eight.
On October 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 am
Dude!!! All that work….cool. Inspiring.
On May 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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